Mikey Peterson

Art Educator / Video Artist / Musician

Websites

Web site

www.mikeypeterson.com

Twitter

@PetersonMikey

About

Short CV

Mikey Peterson is a Chicago-based video-audio artist, singer-songwriter, and art educator. He creates experimental video art that focuses on distortion, organic abstraction and sound having shown work internationally at festivals including the Lucca Film Festival in Lucca, Italy, the STREETVIDEOART exhibition in Paris, France, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, Audiovisioni Digitali in Ragusa, Sicily, and at the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Festivals in Szczecin, Poland. His work has shown at the Chicago Cultural Center, at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, the Armory Center For The Arts in Pasadena, California, and is exhibited on the Paris-based television channel, Art Television and the New York-based website, Videoart.net. Peterson also writes and performs sparse yet melodic songs with his band The Trust, and as The Duende Bros has partnered with poet Eric Elshtain to develop an inimitable form of musical dance poetry.